The caption for this image reads: "Lincoln from painting by Howard Pyle." Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He served from March 1861 to his assassination on April 15, 1865. Howard Pyle (died 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. On February 21, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived in Philadelphia en route to Washington, After a 34-gun salute, he rode from the depot in an open carriage pulled by four white horses to the Continental Hotel as anywhere from 100,000 to a quarter of a million people cheered him o

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The caption for this image reads: "Lincoln from painting by Howard Pyle." Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He served from March 1861 to his assassination on April 15, 1865. Howard Pyle (died 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. On February 21, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived in Philadelphia en route to Washington, After a 34-gun salute, he rode from the depot in an open carriage pulled by four white horses to the Continental Hotel as anywhere from 100,000 to a quarter of a million people cheered him on. Mrs. Margaret C. Pyle was one of the onlookers, having come up from Wilmington, Delaware, at the invitation of a friend. Some 46 years later, Mrs. Pyle’s son Howard painted this illustration for “Lincoln’s Last Day” by William H. Crook (Harper’s Monthly Magazine, September 1907

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